Ishinomaki was mauled more than any other municipality by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Close to 4,000 residents lost their lives.

I visited Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture ... to the public as a tsunami memorial site, and a memorial museum has also been built in Okawa to highlight the extent of ...